...George Bistis This essay traces the history of the Far Right in Greece, which is on the rise again almost four decades after the collapse of the military junta that ruled the Mediterranean country from 1967 to 1974. The author examines how the Golden Dawn party capitalized on Greek citizens...

... Affairs, Inc. Vandoros: Immigration and Political Opportunities for Right- Wing Extremism 49 contributed to its transformation from a Far Right group to an established, influential political party? The essay also explores why GD was not able to exploit the immigration issue to increase its...

... message developed among three actors in Greece: the parties of the far right in Greece after 2008, security professionals, and the news media combined to provide a rationale for accusing immigrants of a mirage of social and economic problems, largely lacking any statistical basis or documented...

... Tony Blair has urged Europeans to “rally against the far Right.” One country that thus far has bucked the trend described above is Spain. No right-wing, anti-immigrant party has taken root in this country to channel citizens’ increasing anxiety about immigration.5 This is tellingly suggested...

...” and “far-right.” Among these were many former colleagues of mine from the New York Times. I recall one of them musing aloud circa 1992 about how to dub a Bosnian Serb leader, saying: “I could call him ‘an extreme nationalist.’ No, how about ‘ultranationalist.’ That’s even better!” Indeed, he...

.... In the perception of Greek citizens, the effect of the refugee crisis is directly related to the ongoing economic crisis. A report from the International Monetary 36. Lizzie Dearden, “Far- Right Mob Attacks Refugee Camp with Molotov Cocktails and Rocks on Greek Island of Chios,” Independent, 18 November...

... in Europe, Austria today, it seems, cannot be trusted even to conduct its domestic affairs without the oversight of the outside world. Following the 3 October 1999 parliamentary elections, in which the far-right Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreîchs [FP led...

... acquitted. Boskovski was also later tried at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia for war crimes committed during the 2001 conflict. Acquitted in 2007, he returned to Macedonia and started his own political party, United for Macedonia, in 2009, a party far to the right of the governing...

....31 29. Robert W. Jackman and Karin Volpert, “Conditions Favouring Parties of the Extreme Right in Western Europe,” British Journal of Political Science 26, no. 4 (1996): 501 – 21; John W. P. Veugelers, “A Challenge for Political Sociology: The Rise of Far-­Right Parties in Contemporary...

... is forgiven or completely paid off. Germany does not like to be reminded of its past, not even to the extent of hearing warnings about the way economic depression can lead to far-­right extremism; so it will not like to be reminded that Germany itself benefited from debt write-­offs after both world...

...-­year career, has written a compelling essay on the rise of the extreme Far Right in Greece, focusing specifically on the political party Golden Dawn. In the wake of Greece’s economic meltdown and the deterioration of PASOK’s and New Democracy’s nearly forty-year grip on Greek politics, Bistis...

... itself. This point is clearly articulated in one of the handbooks of U.S. domestic terrorists, The Turner Diaries, a brutal novel in which a far right-wing racist group brings down the federal government by committing so many terrorist acts that people lose faith in the government’s ability...

... administration had conducted a crackdown on human rights groups that was not far removed from the behavior of Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia. That trend has continued and even intensified since the 2013 vote on the amendments. One of Orban’s prominent targets is the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union...

... also returned to the private lending market, where through sales of government bonds it generated capital to fully fund unex- pected 2014 financing gaps.17 15. George Bistis, “Golden Dawn or Democratic Sunset: The Rise of the Far Right in Greece,” Mediterranean Quarterly 24, no. 3 (2013): 35...

..., on either side of the Aegean, might try to sabotage the process. It is unfortunately true that there are Greek fringe groups on the far right who consider it their patriotic duty to antagonize Turkey. They are prepared to take matters into their own hands and do what...

... or just one of a number of references during the campaign to Vichy-like institutions, designed to reso- nate with far-right voters. France and the EU The rejection of the proposed EU constitution by French voters brought the ratification process to a standstill and cast...

..., the perennial human yearning for a strong leader to provide firm guidance in a time of confusion and incoherence.” 20. Financial connections and loans to parties form an informal network connecting Putin’s inner circle and the European far right. See Elizabeth Zerofsky, “Europe’s Populists Prepare...

... historical, psychologi- cal, and political lenses.3 In a comprehensive review of the issue, Walter Laqueur identifies terror networks based on ideological association and he arrives at four groups: Islamist, Far Right, Far Left, and the Third Position. By the Third Position Laqueur means anarchistic...

... on page 45, but on 24 July 1923. Ismet Inonu is not at the far right but second from the right in a photograph on page 59. Turkey did not sever diplo- matic relations with Nazi Germany in April 1944 (page 86) but on 23 February 1945. The Treaty of Kars was signed not in 1923 but on 13 October 1921...

... on page 45, but on 24 July 1923. Ismet Inonu is not at the far right but second from the right in a photograph on page 59. Turkey did not sever diplo- matic relations with Nazi Germany in April 1944 (page 86) but on 23 February 1945. The Treaty of Kars was signed not in 1923 but on 13 October 1921...